Selvage loop retainer



May 4,1926. 1583,400

c. LAVALLEE ssLvAeE-Ldor RETAINER Filed pin. 23 I 1925 ATIFF EIT UNITED STA JE Patented May 4, 1926.

l 1,583,400 I PATENT OFFICE cimnnns'rnvnnnnnonivnwmanxnnnnw nAiyrrs'ri-Inn'.

'snLv Gnoon; nnrniivnn.

" Application filedOctober 23,1925. sealaatrsai To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that CHARLES LAvAnLnn, c1t-- izen of the United States, residing at Newmarket, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, has invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Selvage Loop Retainers, of which the following interference withand damage to the reed of the loom. a

Additional objects and advantages will be partly pointed out or become apparent from a consideration of the description following of one operative embodiment taken in connection with accompanying drawings where- Figure 1 is a plan view ofthe' device;

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof but with one side plate removed to disclose details; I

Figure 3 is a front end elevation and Figure 4: is a section taken on a line H of Figure 1. V I

Referring specifically to the drawings, 10 designates a bracket by means ofwhich the device may be removably bolted or fastened to a loom. A body consisting for example of spaced side plates 11 and 12 is provided,

the former bearing against one side of a lug 13 of bracket '10. A cleat 14: engages the other side of lug 13. Said cleat 14: and plate 11 are fastened rigidly but removably and adjustably to lug 13 by a bolt 15. A bolt 16 displaceable holder 18. Bolt 16 removably disposes a block 19 of less width than slot 17 in the latter to constitute an abutment for an expansive return spring 20 which urges the holder 18 to forward or operative position as shown in full lines.I Plate 11 is laterally offset at 21 to provide a larger chamber for the spring 20.

' At the forward end, by means of a screw 22, a finger or retainer 23 of suitable shape to engage the selvage at a depending terminal 24 is provided.

The lay beam of the loom is adapted to a device strike a lever 25 at a nose 26. Lever 25 I pivoted as by a bolt 27 to plate 11 and has f i an extension or lug 28 in contact with the;

forward portion ofiholder 18 to displace the latter through rocking of lever25 from the In its displacing movement, holder 18 is full .-to the dotted line position of Figure 2.

guided by a bolt 29'passed through plates 11 and 14 andan arcuate slot 30 of the holder.

Aroller 31 is positioned on bolt 29 and in' said slot 30 to reduce friction;

Nose 26 is adjustably fastened to lever 25 as, by a bolt 32 passing throughslots thereof, the slot 33 of thelatter' being elongated. A

rib 34L integralwith nose 26 abuts the lower end of lever 25 sovth'at the single bolt" 32 will sufiice. A spacing. lug 35 to engage plate 12 may be formed on plate 11. An L-shaped stop 36 for movement of lever 25 isfastened in place by bolt 27 and engageable by the 7 upper endof nose -26.

ln use'the parts are adjusted at the difierent locations particularly bolts 15, 22 and 32 according to the work. Retainer 24 normally engages the selvage of the cloth. The

lay beam however strikes nose 26 during the operation of the loom and eachtime rocks lever 25 so thatthe end 28 raises the forward end of and rearwardly slides holder 18, the

parts thus moving from the full line position to the dotted line position in Figure 2, temporarily so as to disengage feeler 23 from the cloth in order to avoid damage to the reed of the loom; The displacingmovement of holder 18 tensions spring 20 so that as the lay beam recedes, the said spring restores the parts from the dotted to the full line position in Fig. 2 so-t'hat the point 24 will --reengage the selvage; I

Various changes may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of the invention. passes through plates 11 and 12 and cleat 1 1 and also through an elongated slot 17 of a a I claim; V 1. A holder device of the class described comprising a selvage-engaging holder, and

means engageable by the lay of the loom to displace 's'aid holder comprisingv a lever, a nose ad ustablysecured to said lever, a rib on the noseengagmg the lever, and a stop on the lever engaged by'the upper end of the nose. 7

.2. A holder device of the class'described having side plates, means to secure said plates to a loom,a selvage engaging holder having an enlarged guide slot, means on the plates engaging said slot, areturn spring engaging the holder, and means carried by the plates engageable by the lay of a loom to displaoe'the holder.

3. A holder device of the class described having an attachingbracket side plates se-. cured thereto, a block between said plates, at

' selvage-engaging holder movable between the side plates, said holder having an elongated slot engaging said block, means in said slot engaging the holder'and block to urge, the holder to operative position, and means 10 onone of the plates engageable by the lay of a loom to temporarily displace said holder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.- CHARLES LAVALLEE. V 

